Wwii Sub Razorback Will Be Resurrected As Museum

The Nation - In Brief

June 21, 2004

NEW ORLEANS -- The USS Razorback, a World War II submarine that is the world's longest-serving sub, is back in U.S. water, starting a voyage up the Mississippi River to become an inland museum in Arkansas. The Navy decommissioned the 312-foot vessel in 1970 and handed it over to the Turkish navy, which recently agreed after 21/2years of negotiations to sell it to North Little Rock, Ark., for $1. The rusty, barnacled Razorback entered the Mississippi on Saturday, towed by the same oceangoing tugboat that has been with it since its departure from Istanbul on May 5, and docked in New Orleans.